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You are converting mechanical energy into thermal energy. This is why your hands will feel warmer after rubbing them together.

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You convert kinetic energy into thermal energy when you rub two sticks together because?

Kinetic energy is movement energy. So when you rub two sticks together, the rubbing is the kinetic energy. The friction that this causes releases heat. Heat is thermal energy. So due to friction you can convert kinetic energy into thermal energy by rubbing sticks together.


How does contracting a protostar convert gravitational energy into thermal energy?

Sliding friction tends to convert kinetic energy into thermal energy, thermal energy being heat, kinetic energy being movement.


What do brakes do?

A vehicals brakes convert kinetic energy into thermal energy through friction and dissipate the thermal energy into the atmosphere


What does friction convert kinetic energy to?

Friction converts kinetic energy into thermal energy (heat) by generating heat through the resistance between two surfaces in contact.


What energy does friction convert to mechanical energy?

Friction converts kinetic energy into thermal energy due to the heat generated by the interaction of surfaces in contact.


What enery tranformation takes place when rubbing your habds together?

thermal energychemical energy is transferred to thermal, sound, and motion energy. Thermal


What type of energy is produced when you rub your hands together?

Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The change in temperature produced by rubbing your hands together is called friction, and it is the conversion of chemical energy in your cells into kinetic energy (The force that makes you rub your hands together) and that kinetic energy is partially converted into thermal energy. The conversion of kinetic to thermal is called friction.


Why does kinetic friction occur?

kinetic friction occurs because of movement, when two things rub together. take for example your hands, when rubbed together with pressure, they create kinetic friction.. feel the heat between your hands when you're rubbing them together? that's friction from movement!!!


When you rub your hands together what kinds of energy are you making?

When you rub your hands together, you are primarily creating frictional energy. The friction between your hands generates heat energy, as the contact and movement of the surfaces create resistance and convert mechanical energy into thermal energy.


What can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy?

Friction can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy


What two types of energy do you get from friction?

thermal, and kinetic


When an object loses kinetic energy due to a force of kinetic friction is the loss of kinetic energy transformed primarily into potential or thermal energy?

Kinetic friction is associated with thermal energy (and sound or light).